I’m going to echo the position of Marcus Burton, Lee Badman, and Andrew von Nagy. Despite the marketing push, there really is no need for > 1 Gbps link to a 802.11ac Wave 2 AP. Not at the access layer at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dVMs5_Kgew This Wi-Fi gauge goes up to 6.8 Gbps, so that means we need a 10Continue reading “WLAN Vendors: The NBASE-T Ball is in Your Court”
Author Archives: Jim Vajda
Hotspot 2.0 Can Disrupt the Cellular Marketplace
When it comes to cellular in the U.S. there are two major carriers, AT&T and Verizon, and everybody else. While Sprint and T-Mobile both also compete in the national market, they have far fewer subscribers and a reputation for poor coverage. This has essentially been the state of affairs since Cingular bought AT&T Wireless in 2004Continue reading “Hotspot 2.0 Can Disrupt the Cellular Marketplace”
Channel Planning isn’t Easy for Algorithms
If you’ve ever had to create a manual channel plan where spectrum is scarce, you know how hard it is to get it right. You run out of virgin spectrum, then the difficult choice of channel reuse is encountered. Often, what looks acceptable on an architectural plan, doesn’t hold up to post-deployment validation. Two AP’sContinue reading “Channel Planning isn’t Easy for Algorithms”
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